Everything in a human being should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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  Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.

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  Brevity is the sister of talent.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

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  There is no shame in being happy.

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